Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-24
DR.. MGLYNN'S REPLY.
He Says chat Archbishop Corrigan has
net Acted Frankly in the Case
OF His Removal.
Services are Conducted in St. Stephens
Church but no Collection is Taken
UP-A Report to be Made.

NEW YORK, Jan. 23.-Dr. McGlynn be-
ing still confined TO his room by illness,
dictated the following reply to Arch
bishop Corrigan: "Pending fuller state
ment which shall feel called upon to
make as soon as physically able, L desire
now to say th9t in the paper OF
Archbishop Corrigan published this morn
fng, certain letters ard parts OF letters
essential to the understanding of the case
are omitted. l did promise in
1882 TO make 10 mere Irish land
league speeches. and when again censured
in 1883 for favoring an Irish revolution
in speech in behalf If the starving peo-
pie in the West OF Ireland, made at the re-
quest OF united Irish county associations,
did promise to maze no more speeches
on the Irish question, even for charity,
but | did not bind myself by promise to
abstain for all time to come from public
speaking on political and social
subjects. With one exception,
that Of my speech at the Chickerlng hall
meeting, the reasons for which | eX-
planned at the time to the archbishop, l
have Welded obedience in all things,
even when l could feel that ODE
dience was not righttully demanded,
nor has my conduct either toward the
archbishop himself, or toward the Roman
authorities been of the defiant character,
which suppression of facts of my letters
gives to it.
al give 20 the archbishop in that part
of my letter of December 30, which he
has not published, good and sufficient
reasons why could not 90 to Rome. l
have never retracted, nor without doing
violence to nv conscience, could
retract my conviction that God made
land Tor the equal use Of all His children,
and that the laws which deny their
birthIght to great majority OF men are
unjust and luxurious and ought to be
abolished.
II am theOlOGian enough to know that
the Catholic church has never condemned
this doctrine, as contrary to the Catholic
faith. If the pope, teaching the
universal church as chief bishop
thereof, or as the term is,
eX-cathedra, thus defining what has been
handed down from Christ and his apos
ties, should declare that this doctrine
is contrary to the Catholic faith,
should then, as Catholic repudiate
It; but | am also theolOgian enough to
know WHIST the CHURCH teaches
as to limitations OF this
power Of definition, and
therefore to know that the doctrine of
equality of human rights in land can no
more be condemned by the Catholic
church than any other truth"
DR.. McGlynn had all his personal eff
fects removed from s.. Stephens
yestry to the house OF his sister in
Harlem A reporter called at the resi-
dence of DR.. McGlynn's sister, and learned
that the doctor was not confined to bed,
but was kept in strict seclusion. Even
newspapers were denied him, and the
only information he had regarding do
ings in the outer world he Obtained
4rom his physician, DR.. Shrady. Dr..
Henry Carey, treasurer of the McGlynn
fund, says the fund is increasing
beyond Lis most sanguine eX-
pectatiOnS. The parishiOners of St.
Stephens church, as far as could be
learned by the reports, hold that the
statement published by Archbishop Corri-
gan in regard to Father McGlynn's case
is not fair exposition of the case.
The TACT is printed, too, that while
the archbishop publishes in full his let
ters to DR.. McGlynn, he appears to have
found it expedient to suppress portions
OF Dr.. McGlyna's letters, which are said
Oy friends Of the dep0sed priest to be Of
Importance ia passing judgment upon the
controversy.
NEW YORK, Jan. 23.-Service5 at st.
Stephen 3 church to-day were conducted
as usual, excepting that no collections
were made. Considerable feeling was
aroused 10y the fact that policemen in
uniform had been posted on the
street ard others in citizens clothes
inside the church. A committee
of DR.. McGlynn's Pensioners met to-day
and formulated a report which will be
presented to the meeting tomorrow
evening on the steps If St. Stephens, if
the basement hall is forbidden them by
DR.. McGlyun's successor.